journalists

It’s not about the flags. It was never about the flags. One half of the fuss about a story lately peddled by the British media claiming Nicola Sturgeon had ordered every Union flag in Scotland to be seized and ceremonially…

Sexual harassment is a serious issue. It deserves to be taken seriously. It deserves better than to be exploited for the kind of cheap sensationalism we see in this article. Sexual harassment of women at the Scottish Parliament is a…

I didn’t attend the Scottish Independence Convention last Saturday [Jan 14th]. Sitting for hours in a hotel conference room listening to speeches really isn’t my bag. I did though manage to catch most of Richard Walker’s speech courtesy of Independence…

I was present when Richard Walker made his plea on behalf of supposedly beleaguered journalists. The question I posed at the time, although I was not permitted to put it to him directly, was this; why should we have to…

More astute readers will immediately recognise that there is not so much as a scintilla of evidence that any of the ‘people’ referred to in over 500 words of vacuous drivel exist anywhere other than in David Leask’s imagination. Nobody…

Kevin McKenna makes no attempt to consider the actual reason for David Torrance flouncing off Twitter in such comically melodramatic fashion. No doubt it had ceased to be “fun” for him. But if one is less inclined than Mr McKenna…